Using the dialect program "Baixiao Talking Show" (BTS) as a case study, the paper aims to analyze how the Chinese dialect programs strive to create an apolitical local public space at a time when the state's power and the market logic prevail. To understand the cultural politics of the dialect program BTS, this paper asks three questions. Firstly, how did BTS rise to power in the local media market? Secondly, what is the ideology of BTS? Thirdly, what kind of public sphere has been created by BTS? By using the research methods of semi-structured interviews and textual analysis, this research found that BTS does not establish a "localism vis-a-vis nationalism" relationship with the party-state hegemony, nor is it a transbelt between the center and the local. The paper concludes that the orchestration of state deregulation, returning localism, ongoing marketization, and local media development together give rise to the popularity of dialect programs in contemporary China.

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莊梅茜（2016）。〈方言節目與大陸新時期的地方媒體政治：以《百曉講新聞》為例〉。《傳播與社會學刊》，第37期，頁161–189。

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Zhuang, M. (2016). Dialect program and the local media politics of Mainland China in the new era: The case of "Baixiao Talking Show". Communication & Society, 37, 161–189.